Kalgoorlie Gold Mining has turned the start key on its Pinjin project in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields, with hole collars and drill pads being prepared this week after management confirmed vital heritage clearance at the site.
The company says discussions with traditional owners clarified that there were no significant Aboriginal heritage sites at either of its Kirgella Gift or Providence prospects and drilling is slated to start next Tuesday.
KalGold has wasted no time implementing its plans to put 12 reverse-circulation (RC) holes into the two prospects for a total of about 1840m of drilling. The campaign has the dual objective of extending the thick, shear-hosted gold mineralisation down-dip and down-plunge at Kirgella Gift and confirming gold mineralisation identified in historic discovery holes at Providence, which lies a few hundred metres south of Kirgella Gift.
Kalgoorle Gold Mining managing director Matt Painter said: “KalGold is very excited to commence drill testing of the Kirgella Gift and Providence targets at the Pinjin Project. We are following up on the thick, shear-hosted gold intercepts of our initial confirmatory drilling at Kirgella Gift, aiming to extend down-plunge and along strike to the south towards the Providence prospect. The project area is host to a swag of targets located on a 20km long segment of the highly prolific Laverton Tectonic Zone, between Hawthorn Resources’ Anglo-Saxon gold mine and Ramelius Resources’ Rebecca gold project located 20km along strike to our south.”
Kirgella Gift features shallow high-grade mineralisation that is open along strike, with historic drill results including 33m at 3.1 grams per tonne gold from 51m downhole. KalGold put three confirmatory RC drillholes holes into Kirgella for 355m earlier this year, yielding respective intercepts of 38m at 1.86g/t gold from 73m, 35m at 1.71g/t gold from 43m and 12m at 1.71g/t gold from 11m, with each of the broad intercepts including multiple shorter zones at higher grades.
The two prospects are close enough to each other to prompt the company to believe they are likely to be part of a single mineralised system within a bigger zone of continuous gold mineralisation. It considers the system likely to extend through about 1km of strike, which it plans to drill in subsequent programs.
The company’s Pinjin project lies within the 30-million-ounce gold Laverton Tectonic Zone which hosts the well-known Sunrise Dam, Granny Smith, Rebecca, Anglo Saxon and Wallaby projects. It is just 25km north along strike from Ramelius Resources’ Rebecca gold project.
With historic work on Pinjin identifying gold mineralisation from shallow levels that is open-ended, KalGold’s immediate focus is on testing and confirming the continuity of mineralisation.
KalGold has previously revealed farm-in plans to acquire a 75 per cent interest at Kirgella and Pinjin South, with an option during the next two years for it to expand upon known mineralisation.
Adding that to the company’s other existing tenure and applications and it has clearly established a significant presence in a strategic and important region, where a swag of targets may well lead to a swag of good drill intersections.
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By Doug Bright
